Appendix A: List of NPPF “Designated Rural Areas” – Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
The list below is intended as a helpful guide. For a definitive position on whether a site falls within an AONB, please contact the Planning Policy Team.
Parishes wholly inside an AONB:
Cowden, Penshurst, Sundridge with Ide Hill
Parishes wholly outside an AONB:
Ash Cum Ridley, Fawkham, Hartley, Hextable, Horton Kirby and South Darenth
Parishes partly within an AONB:
Badgers Mount (except for the land between Old Chevening (except most of the developed London Road and the Orpington by‐pass) Brasted area and some land south of the M26) (except a very small area in the south) Chiddingstone (only the southern half and a small Crockenhill (only the rural south east) strip in the north) Dunton Green (only the rural north) Edenbridge (only the rural south) Eynsford (except a very small area near the M25) Farningham (only south of the A20) Halstead (only a small area in the south east) Hever (only the southern half) Knockholt Kemsing (only the rural north and east) (only a strip of land in the south) Leigh (only the rural south west and a very small Otford (only the northern half) area in the north) Riverhead (only the rural south) Seal (except an area in the west near to Sevenoaks and a small rural area in the south) Sevenoaks (only the rural south east and south Sevenoaks Weald (except a small area in west) the south) Shoreham (except two very small areas in the Swanley (only a very small rural area near extreme west) the M25) West Kingsdown (only the rural west and south) Westerham (except the extreme south)